I'm pretty unfamiliar with a lot of this stuff, so I apologize for probably some dumb questions.

I work from home and game when I can so I value quality internet. My home was built in 2020. I just decided to change my ISP to Quantum Fiber. I've been paying $136 for 400Mbps internet using my own equipment where I can get 2Gbps internet using leased equipment from Quantum for $95. The service appointment is this Wednesday.

We have FTTH, but once it hits the ONT (pictured...I think), it converts the signal to coax. Then, directly on the other side of the wall from the ONT, is my home office where I go from coax to a modem, then ethernet to a Eero 6+, then to a Nighthawk S8000, then to my desktop PC. I strongly prefer a wired connection to my PC but the rest of the house is fine being on WiFi. I have another Eero 6+ in my basement to cover the rest of the home (3,800 sqft for reference).

Apparently, Quantum's equipment is WiFi 7, which I'm really excited about for the rest of the house.

So, on to my questions...

1. Will Quantum replace that ONT with their own device (SmartNID)?
   
2. Does the coax bottleneck my bandwidth and latency? I think I know the answer to this one.
   
3. Am I able to forgo using any sort of coax and just go straight from fiber to ethernet?
   
4. If so, what would that look like? Would the technician take the FTTH line outside the home and connect it to the SmartNID and then somehow run fiber into some sort of modem or router (I think they call their devices Pods???) in my home office? Then am I able to run my ethernet cable from that modem/router/Pod directly to my PC? Or do I still need to run it through a switch? I'm trying to figure out if I need to run out and buy a better switch since the Nighthawk is limited to 1Gbps.
   
5. Is the modem/router/Pod or whatever they provide also a WAN to provide WiFi access to the rest of the home?

Doing a job for a home client who was remodeling part of their home for an AirBNB. All networking gear in this former office room was moved to another room, but the AP needed a home run made to the new IT room.

The electrician stated they had completed the home run, but then the homeowner calls and says something seemed off about the work.

I arrive on site and see this.....

Electrician takes existing Cat6 jack, runs a home run from jack to new IT closet. Then electrician fishes a cable from AP in the ceiling to the former jack in the wall. Contractors were about to seal this over if I hadn't caught it in time.

FYI, the last picture was after I added the keystone and properly terminated.

Today I explored my apartments network hardware and found it’s pretty extensive. I’ve discovered that I can plug an ethernet port from the router to that cat.5e module and get a wired connection in different rooms around the apartment. I’m still not sure what the three Ethernet wires that aren’t plugged in are for.

I’ve learned and I have new questions:

What are those three unplugged Ethernet cables?

Can I use these connections to have a second router in another room?

Moved into a new spot, and here's the patch panel...

Labels added by me.

Pretty sure it's all wired 568A? Have to take off the other end to explore.

Bonus: "Room 1" is CAT5E that's keystoned, with a CAT6 cable plugged in and zip locked to it, terminating unstripped on the other end?

Hi,

I bought home with ethernet cables Cat. 6A U/FTP going to the rooms from garage. I need to terminate cables in garage so I check wheter in rooms they used standard A or B.

I find out that they messed up connection between wires to keystone (mixed colors).

I have a couple of questions:

1) Is this will be big problem that they remove foil shield and drain wire?

2) Should I ground foil shield and drain wire on the other side (in garage)?

So anyways this happened about over a week ago; so fresh enough that i gotta share before it all gets blurry *(I'm still getting calls from the ISP about wtf happened last week). I'll break it down into bullet point sequence so its easier to follow and keep track. Happy reading..

-- Thursday about BEFORE 2pm; fibre line breaks. ONT is blinking RED; means there's a problem with the fibre line. Get the WhatsApp from ISP asking if there's a problem with the line and if i'd like to setup a tech to come. Dont hold my breath because system says next possible availability is Monday. Dangit; whole weekend without the 'net. Kids are gonna miss their weekend Roblox/Minecraft with friends. Better get used to the satellite TV channels, kids. I'm thinking it's the rain causing the fibre to break *(but rain didnt start until almost 3pm. Maybe i got my timing wrong. Anyhoo; might be just like what happened back in Jan, Feb AND March. Yeah; ONCE per MONTH for 3 months start of 2025).

-- Friday morning about 11am; ISP tech calls; says they're in the neigbourhood. You home and can we drop by? I'm like SURE! You're welcome! I'll layout the water bottles for ya'll *(sorry no coffee). Long story short; it's the most irritating of problems. It seems at a outdoor box down the street from my house; some installer was messing around and unplugged me. Rain coming and rush job yada yada yada. Fastest fix in my record; just plug me back in. ISP Guys back in my house spending 5 mins confirming the fibre's plugs all good and in correct ports with their tester(s) and system. I'm like thanks ya'll; saved my weekend. here's some ice cold water for the effort. *(So i didnt get my timing wrong; the line broke/disconnected BEFORE it rained).

-- SAME FRIDAY; 3pm. 4hrs later. There's no connection. ONT's blinking GREEN; the kind of error that says you've got a connection; but you're not getting in. Unfortunately; i'm leaving the house for the school run to pickup the kids. Dont come back till afer dinner; which is 8pm. Spend the next hour troubleshooting to confirm (Bill's paid on time; account is NOT BARRED; ONT's working fine; router setting's unchanged and login ID's correct. BUT ONT isnt getting a line after about half dozen reboot and plug/unplugs). So forced to disconnect the fibre cable to create a "breaK"in the connection and try and whatsapp ISP tech support. Next available tech isnt until Monday. I am SOL. Movie night; Had to teach my kids how to channel surf. **(Teach. My. Kids. Channel Surfing. These monkeys can surf Google TV/Youtube like a seasoned pro; but i had to teach them how to channel surf satellite TV?! Facepalm moment )

-- Saturday 10am.. Phone rings and Hallelujah; another tech's in the neighbourhood. Can he drop by? Like a drop of rain in a desert , he's welcome! ISP Techie drops by; i give him the short story about what happened on Thurs and Friday. Looks at the ONT and says yup; that's not right. Unplugs the Fibres and test's them; yeah getting a connection no problem. Asks me if i ever rebooted the ONT. I says "I got 2 kids and its friday night after school. Ya think i havent tried that with kids nagging?! At least a half dozen times i tried". ISP Tech Get's on the phone calling someone up the chain to confirm the account and line is working *(they say yeah it is) and is then rebooting the ONT. Caller says no issue on their part; and suddenly the ONT is SOLID GREEN after a reboot. Tech gives me the evil eye.

"I know that Evil Eye look! i tell you man; i had 2 sons complaining last night. I used to work in Enterprise support with 400+ computers and servers. Ya think i wouldnt do a simple reboot at home BEFORE i call ya'll? I spent 1 hour troubleshooting and rebooting everything myself before i filed a ticket!!"

ISP tech accepts explanation and thinks its one of those where the ONT fears him more than it fears my wife & kids.. So anyways he says he wont close it for a few more hours and if i dont call him he'll close the ticket end of day. I say great.

-- Line works all the way until ... Monday evening. ONT is blinking RED. Again.

-- Tuesday ISP morning tech comes over; same problem as last Thurs. Some idiot unplugged me again. This time tech makes adjustment to the street box and logs the issue with HQ about which contractor is screwing with the street box ...

So anyways; hope ya'll have a great read.

PS -- As a special bonus; there's picture of the DLINK ONT our ISP is using. You'll find it ironic the name the ISP is using. But i do like the fact that DLINK is now able to sell Router's with ONT built-in. Maybe it'll trickle down to prosumer/consumer whereby everyone will be able to buy a replacement All-In-One ONT-Router. *(Previously our ISP hardware setup was a 2 unit combo Huawei ONT + Dlink Router. We can always replace the router with whatever brand that supported our country. Now it seems the ISP is streamlining abit by merging the ONT + router into 1 unit. I had to setup the ONT as bridge modem so i can still use my own router+mesh).

PSS -- ISP customer service bugging me about how's their quality and all that shit and why so many call outs over the weekend. If this was corporate SLA; they would be hearing from my accountant boss ...

Hello,

Looking for some help. I have spectrum as my internet provider and I’m on the 1000mbps plan. When I do a speed test through the Spectrum app I’m getting over 1000mbps. My house is over 2500sq and when I was in different parts of the house the speed was really slowing down, so I bought these extenders (above). But when I connected them my speed test through Speedtest app was 90-110mbps. What do I need to do to get the speed that I’m paying through my whole house? Are these the extenders? Do I need to change and settings?

TIA!

I've recently upgraded my broadband to get 500mbp which I do get over WiFi and when I connect directly to the router downstairs.

My problem is there's ethernet ports in the rooms although I only get just under 100mbp upstairs. I'm using Cat6 cables along with a 1gb switch too.

Could the internal wiring not be 1gb and if not is there anyway to test this?

I’m in a “new to me” house and they have electrical switches that have green and yellow indicator lights on them. Some of the switches have their yellow lights flashing above the green lights which are solid. The outlet at back door just has a solid green light. This is all very different from my no-indicator-switches at prior home.

Tonight I noticed that the switch by the front door, that turns on the exterior light, is acting strange. When I press the button to turn on the light, most of the time it turns on and then immediately turns off again. I have to keep pressing it a few times until the exterior light stays on. Same thing tonight.

But before I walked away, I heard a noticeable buzzing sound coming from inside the outlet. Kind of a tinkling/buzzing hybrid sound. I felt the outlet and it felt a bit warm. This concerned me so I turned the exterior light off again. The buzzing noise inside the outlet diminished but didn’t stop all together. Something doesn’t feel right to me about this.

I’ve also noticed an outlet inside the garage making a weird sound inside. That one sounded like an angry bee buzzing around inside the outlet (on exterior wall). I’ve heard this sound about six times, at random times in the past month. I thought there might be bees in the wall but now I’m not so sure. I plan to call an electrician in the morning but thought I would post here to see if anyone had any advice for me. Hopefully not just “RTFM.” Thanks in advance.

Modem in living room is from Spectrum, and it's hooked via coax into an AT&T wall box a few feet away

I was also able to plug my AT&T fiber modem into it.

What the hell kind of sorcery is this?

Problem is I need the box moved and I need the spectrum guy to not throw a fit about the coax hookup and just move the darn thing.

Yes, all of this sounds weird. No, nothing is made up.

Somebody lend some assistance/advice.

so what I basically want is

-something small that fits into a 10" rack.
-has 8 ports
-Can manage which devices gets to speak to to others, and does or does not get internet access
-has POE

I I'm thinking about getting a router that runs openwrt(flint 2) that does all the other stuff, so what I am thinking is that it will just feed a line into the switch, and it just does all the managing of the devices.

does this sound viable? or do I need to do something else?
any recommendations is welcome as I am new to this.

Hi folks,

I'm about to move to a new apartment where I had this brilliant idea of hiring an 8gbps internet link. I have cat 6a cables laid out to the most important rooms and thought it'd be nice to have such a fast internet link. However, I'm now struggling to plan things out, like Firewall and VLAN. I did plan to have about 4 basic vlans for different things I plan to do (public services I plan to expose, isolated retro network, main vlan with media server and so on, and a guest VLAN)

My first barrier was the fact that's quite difficult to find a computer I could use as a firewall that would support 4 10GbE ports plus a fast processor to be able to enforce firewall rules in such a fast link.

Anyone on the same boat? Any ideas? If anyone has similar needs, how did you do it? Are you happy with it?

Something is really puzzling me in my home network:

WAN router ---- cat 7sftp ---- laptop: 1000mbps
WAN router ---- cat 7sftp ---- GB switch ---- cat 6 ---- laptop: 100 mbps
WAN router ---- cat 6 -------- GB switch ----- cat 6 ---- laptop: 1000 mbps

so, direct connection from WAN router over cat 7 sftp 'proves' that the cable is ok, but when I put a switch in the middle, the connection drops to 100..
replacing the cat7 by cat6 with the same switch in the middle makes it 1000 again.

Somebody experienced the same, or knows what is wrong?

Thanks, Jurgen

I’m new to home networking and set up my VLANS. Everything works great but I’m trying to figure out these 2 things:

1) If I’m at home and my phone is connected to Proton VPN, if I try to view my video doorbell on the IOT VLAN, it won’t go through unless I turn the VPN off. Same issue with my Roku app, it can’t connect to the TV unless I turn VPN off (less of a problem as I can just use the remote). I understand why, because of my firewall settings, but are there settings I can have that will somehow allow access without having to disconnect my VPN? My windows desktop app allows split tunneling, but the iOS app does not.

2) I setup Teleport VPN with my UDR7, and it works if I am using wifi (e.g, connected to my guest wifi which has no access to IOT, but can view the camera if I connect VPN through Teleport). It does not work if I connect my phone to cell data. I’ve hardly found any topics on this except one reddit post that said it may be an ipv6 issue.

The whole reason I rabbit holed into netsec was to a) isolate my IOT devices (done) and b) be able to access my doorbell camera reliably when remote (not done).

Any help would be appreciated.

What do these mean and should I be concerned?

I love Deco app and it’s user-friendly, but I’m a pro-privacy user and TP-Link does not seem to have a good reputation in security. The reason I initially got it is for the cost-effective option. Also, I heard that other systems like Eero receive more firmware updates.

My main question: can anybody recommend me a similar system that has a good app interface too? I hate crappy apps. I heard a lot about Eero, but I’m not sure how Amazon stands on the networking side.

Currently using Deco X55 2 Pack with a 300mbps Fiber plan.

Looking to upgrade my router from the included Spectrum router. In particular I'm looking for something that has QoS.

My family recently had a security system installed and my speeds have dropped from 1gb to 80mb/90mb. The included router for Spectrum is very limited in function so I'd like a model that would allow me to prioritize by device for traffic.

I see some Asus models that seem promising. I'm looking for something that is ~$100

WPA3 preferred, WiFi 7 not required.

Thanks in advance.

I'm still pretty new to networking, so I could use some help.

I recently bought a 3rd-party router (Asus RT-AX57) because my ISP's modem can't fully reach the speed of my plan (300 Mbps). On the modem alone, I usually only get around 100 Mbps or less.

I connected the Asus router to the modem, restarted the modem, and the router shows all blue lights (so it looks like it's connected to the internet). But when I try to browse, I get a "cannot connect to the internet" error.

If I connect directly to the modem's WiFi, the internet works fine just slower than my plan. But through the Asus router, I can't get any internet at all.

I also tried setting the Asus up as an Access Point (because I read that might help), but it still couldn't connect. I ended up resetting it and switching back to router mode, but the problem stayed the same.

For context, before this Asus router, I had a TP-Link router. That one worked fine for about 2 hours before it completely bricked itself, so I refunded it and bought this Asus instead. On the TP-Link, I was able to connect to the internet right away just by plugging it in. With the Asus, I can't, even though the blue LED lights show it's connected.

Any idea what I'm missing or doing wrong?

Hello,

I’m trying to set up a virtual switch in Hyper-V for my Proxmox VM. I have tried:

1. Default Switch (NAT)

• Since the Default Switch uses NAT, I thought it would be the simplest solution.
• When I set the Proxmox bridge to use DHCP to connect to the Hyper-V default swtich, it worked fine.
• However, none of the nested VMs inside Proxmox could get network access, which was very odd.

2. External Switch (Wi-Fi)

• I tried creating a new external virtual switch bound to my Wi-Fi adapter.
• I learned that Hyper-V does not allow external switches on Wi-Fi because the Default Switch already provides Wi-Fi NAT.
• So this approach didn’t work.

3. Internal Switch + NAT

• I created an internal switch and assigned it the IP 192.168.2.1 in Device Manager.
• Then I set up a NAT rule with PowerShell:New-NetNat -Name "ProxmoxNAT" -InternalIPInterfaceAddressPrefix 192.168.2.0/24

to create the NAT to link everything together, and then in Proxmox I set the bridge to use `192.168.2.1` as the gateway and just `192.168.1.2`.

• With this setup, Proxmox had wifi and I could ping 1.1.1.1 fine. However inside of VMs,
  • The connection would randomly break
  • DNS would stop resolving
  • Some IPs just wouldn’t work
  • It was very odd behavior overall

Question

With that being said, does anyone know the best way to configure a Hyper-V virtual switch so that:

• It can use static IPs
• It uses the host machine’s Wi-Fi as the network source

Clearly I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m looking to set up a MoCA network in case the Spectrum Pod I just rented doesn’t work for my needs (please don’t tell me to buy my own mesh network—$3/month feels reasonable to me given the free replacements and support. If it works…) I figure if I’m going to invest a few hundred dollars into my network, I’m better off using MoCA than a mesh system anyways. My interest is really just about gaming, so a wired connection would be better anyway.

Hi Reddit.
I'll try to keep this as short as possible, have tried to do as much research on this topic from my end as I can but can't seem to come to a definitive answer / solution.

I've been working on a networking project for a university class I'm taking, where the goal is to investigate the effects of wireless security protocols on Wi-Fi 7 network performance (Essentially, as the security protocol is changed from open security, to WPA2, to WPA3, how are TCP and UDP performance metrics affected, like throughput and jitter.)

The problem I'm having is that Windows 11 (Pro 24H2) reports that the wireless protocol being used for the Wi-Fi connection is 802.11ax when the security protocol being used is WPA2-PSK, not 802.11be. This is not the behavior that I see when I set our router to use WPA3 or standard (not enhanced) open security, where Windows 11 will apparently be happy to form a Wi-Fi 7 connection with our router.

A summary of the equipment we are using for our experiments is as follows:

• Windows 11 client PC Wireless NIC: ASUS PCE-BE92BT (BE9400) Tri Band Wi-Fi 7 PCI-E Adapter (Driver installed from official asus site)
• Router: tp-link BE3600 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router (Archer BE230 v1.0, firmware version 1.1.3 Build 20241211) (No 6GHz band)

(Both are essentially all default configurations; Windows 11 just has a few network testing programs and NIC driver installed.)

I believe that this problem could be caused by a few factors, such as Windows 11 simply misreporting the connection type (802.11ax when it actually is 802.11be), the router itself not being able to have clients use Wi-Fi 7 rates and features when using WPA2 as the security protocol, or some 802.11be protocol level behavior which refuses WPA2 client and has them fall back to 802.11ax. I know that certain features of Wi-Fi 7 are strictly not available unless the network is running WPA3, such as MLO and 6 GHz operation, but considering we are using neither I wouldn't expect it to be a problem.

I'm at a loss for why this exactly happens, so if anyone a bit privier to the operation of 802.11be or Windows 11 networking in general could shed some light, I would greatly appreciate it. An interesting thing to note is that this issue doesn't appear to be a thing using Ubuntu Linux 24.04.02. Even if the security protocol is WPA2, the RX and TX link speed, MCS, and NSS values output from the "iw dev (interface) link" command indicate that the connection is appropriately using Wi-Fi 7.

I've tried to attach all the relevant screenshots and images of the router configuration and connection details from the Windows 11 PC and would be happy to provide anything else, if anyone could provide some info as to why this happens and if it's unavoidable that'd be great. I'd hate to have to throw out our data that we've collected on WPA2 due to it "technically not being data obtained using Wi-Fi 7".

Wireless settings config for each protocol (Open, WPA2, WPA3) + Router version, apologies for screen capture.

I know nothing about wifi...but my husband is using some app to monitor my family's wifi usage. He's only using it to have control over everyone. He knows exactly what devices are connected and when they are being used. It's weirdo behavior. Backstory: we've been married for 5 years and I have 3 teenagers. They're not his. He is an alcoholic and has become obsessed with hating my oldest child for no reason. He turns their wifi off with no warning whatsoever and for no reason. I'm going back to college and he turned the wifi off to my laptop when I was working on a final project. I literally told him I was working on it and 10 minutes later he cut it off. Idk why he's doing this other than he's a mean alcoholic. Is there any way around this? I just need to get work finished without a fight. Also, somehow, he reset my kid's YouTube or something. He pulls up a YouTube channel he's been subscribed to and it only shows 3 really old videos. None of the new videos that I can see when I go to the exact same channel. How is this possible? I don't understand any of this technical stuff and it's driving me crazy. My kid's lights are smart bulbs and he blocked them. He won't let him have lights in his room! Is there anything I can do?